"You're Sister's master huh?""It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Rin, a merchant."The young knight with three scars on his face talked to me. He's the captain of the 17th knight squadron of the dukedom that has followed Liza. Even though they're knight of the dukedom, the captain doesn't hide his social status, the vice-captain introduces themselves. Both of them are commoners. Maybe because of that, they feel more like mercenaries than knights. I've thought that a knight would be a ranked noble, but it doesn't appear to be so.The vice-captain beside him is wearing a helmet, so his face can't be seen, but his tribe is the rare panther-headed clan. Of course, I'm not going to deliberately touch upon it."Hoo, she wasn't the guard of a noble but a merchant. At any rate, you've hired someone really capable, she can even use a magic blade. You're probably an heir to a very large merchant family right.""No, far from being large, I'm a merchant who doesn't even have a store on his own. T
"Are you leaving no matter what?"Viscount Nina who has come to see us off tries to detain me.Behind her, more than 20 servants and maids have also come.Of course, the mastermind is Kagari. Somehow the budget for it hasn't come from the baron but from my pocket instead, but if this is the result then I can consent.However, even though I've heard that it would be completed in spring, it's done already. It might have touched the heartstrings of the tailor. Cute is justice they say.By the way, it's early morning right now, the sun has just risen on the horizon.To be honest, I didn't expect that they would come for a farewell like this.I could see Pochi and Tama receiving something from Lady Soruna at the edge of my view. Looks like the things that entered their small purses are sweets.As for the other, men like the Baron, Hauto, and Zotol have also come.Lady Karina isn't here.I've asked the maid who's attending her room not to wake her up. Since she's always attacking me every d
Dwarves are typically said to live in caves, but from the information I've collected with All Map Exploration, about half of them live normally in the fortress. The other halves are exactly like that typical impression, they're living in the caves next to the city.This self-governing dominion of the dwarves isn't that wide. It's a valley of around 20 kilometers wide in radius. Inside the dominion, there's a city called Bollhart, and two villages. The city has a population of 30 thousand people, there are 20 thousand dwarves with levels averaging at 5-6, four thousand men, two thousand rabbits, two thousand humans, one thousand weasels, and the other 1000 are other demi-humans. There is no elf. I wonder if they're on bad terms?There are a lot of workers and human merchants from what I see in their occupations and skills.There are about 10 people who are higher than level 40 among the dwarves. The highest-leveled one is a dwarf called Dohar. If I'm not mistaken, he's the dwarf that m
"Then let me see you forge a sword. We'll talk after that."Jojori-san?I look at her, but she averts her eyes.We came to elder Dohar's workplace after passing through less-than-one-and-a-half meter high tunnel. There are also numerous high-level dwarves forging swords inside the room.They're all good. Every sword's offense, sharpness, endurance, and other parameters are 50% higher than the ones available in the city.The word earlier was addressed to me after I introduced myself to him."Father, Rin-dono is an acquaintance of Viscount Rottol, and--""Umu, I'm indebted to Nina, but this and that are different stories. I can understand people's nature from how they forge swords. Zajir, heat up a mithril ingot.""Uss, Shishou."Driar interceded, but elder Dohar quickly proceeded with the trial.The dwarf with a gray beard, Zajir, offers me the seat before the prepared ingot and tools.Well, since I've tried blacksmithing once in Muno City, I mostly understand the procedures, I'll try
The next morning, the sword is completed.I've struck enough to see it in my dream.The dwarf's secret medicine was used when the mithril was being heated up in the furnace. Since one of the ingredients is magic core powder, it might be for a dwarf-style magic weapon. Looks like the system is different than a magic weapon made with magic liquid."We finished without changing shifts. If you want to seriously train, come here anytime. Someone like you will surpass me immediately."Bang, elder Dohar slams my back.Guho. It's about as painful as Wagahai-kun's tail attack. If you don't mind the one on the receiving one, they could die you know?"You're quite good for a human!""Agreed, aren't you actually a beardless dwarf?""I didn't think that anyone other than Dohar-shi could swing that great hammer until morning existed.""You're very welcome anytime here."I've just swung the great hammer until morning as instructed by Elder Dohar, but it seems I've been approved by the dwarf blacksmi
On the next morning, three little girls and one girl are suffering from hangovers."Kuah, my head hurts. Uuh, it's blurry.""Ouch......Nodesu.""Rin, medicine."Of course, Nana who drank medicine yesterday is fine, but even Liza and Lulu are alright too.Lulu is handing water for everyone. When my eyes meet with Lulu, she turns red and looks down. I am not so uncouth as to quip the shameful sight of a drunken person, but since it's cute, I'll leave her like that.I make everyone drink the same potion that Nana has drunk.The effect of the potion is splendid, everyone who has been groaning since a while ago quickly gets back to their usual self and begins saying that they're hungry. I better not ask if they remember about yesterday. Particularly Kagari and Mia.Since Jojori-san has come for us, we're going to the dining room. Come to think of it, even though Elder Dohar and Jojori-san are the ruling family of this town, they're eating in the same room as the craftsmen and the blacksmit
"You've heard what I said from a while ago right mister? Even among dwarf blacksmiths, the only ones who could work on first-class stuff like mithril were the personal pupils of the old master. An ordinary working-class dwarf like me only makes swords from normal iron at best. I don't do mithril."The dwarf man who has been pressed for an answer declares so while shrugging his shoulder as if spitting it out."That can't be... Then where should I buy it? I've especially come here from Gururian city.""I duYeso such thing even if you ask me."It seems that even the dwarves don't know how to deal with the man who's lamenting exaggeratedly."There's a lot of people like that during this season. With the month changing in 8 days, the once-in-three-years martial tournament will open in the capital, so people are coming here looking for mithril weapons."After explaining it, Jojori-san says, "I'll go for a bit", and goes to quell the dispute. There are a lot of hidden bodyguards, so she shou
I'm told that the granddaughter of elder Dohar will be my wife if I stay, so I promise Zajir-san who glares at me when he hears that to part away, thus we leave Bollhart city behind.The nearest city is four days away.Since the path there is a mountain trail, it'll probably be five days.There are several carriages going in the same direction as us, but since our speeds are different, we're not moving in the caravan. It seems that normally, even if the moving speeds are different, many carriages join together to evade thieves, monsters and beasts.Since we wouldn't be able to craft, experiment, and do training if we were together with other merchants, I try not to intrude on each other's turf as much as possible.Even so, there are times when we meet them during the break, so I've put dummy barrels, boxes, and various luggage around.Currently, the coachman is Lulu. Kagari installed a cushion on the driver's seat during our stay in Bollhart City, so it looks comfortable now. It seems